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Vice-Premier Leads Games Bidders Back From Moscow
Vice-Premier Leads Games Bidders Back From Moscow
Vice-Premier Li Lanqing led the Beijing Olympic Games bidding team back home from Moscow Saturday night after the Chinese bidders won the right to host the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.
The vice-premier and his party were met at Capital International Airport by Vice-President Hu Jintao and a group of ranking officials, along with 500 people from all walks of life.
Speaking at a ceremony in honor of the delegation, Hu, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said Beijing's success in the bidding demonstrated once again that an open and increasingly prosperous China is marching towards the world.
Describing the success as a glory to China and pride of the Chinese nation, Hu said the successful bidding also marked a beginning of preparations for the 2008 Olympic Games.
Vice-Premier Leads Games Bidders Back From Moscow
The Chinese government and people will continue to support Beijing's endeavor to host the Games that will be the most wonderful one in the history of the Olympic movement.
Li gave a brief review of the team's work in Moscow, and said the success will create more favorable conditions for China to step up its reform and opening to the outside world and modernization drive.
It will also inspire all the Chinese people to take greater strides in their endeavor to realize the strategic goal of modernization in the new century, he said.
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